Every year, the Omega Boys Club honors men or women who exemplify the club's mission – to help individuals stay alive and free, unharmed by violence and out of prison.

Researchers including Cambridge University's Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD, and UC San Francisco's Roger Pedersen, PhD, have made a finding in the mouse embryo that they say provides a fundamental insight into how the body forms in mammals.

Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), ...

The exhibition, "The Public and Private Worlds of Isamu Noguchi: A Selection of Works from The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, New York" is currently on display at the UCSF library.

California faces a shortage of registered nurses and needs to increase the supply to keep pace with the rapid growth of the state's population, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Public Policy Institute of California.

Researchers have discovered a gene in zebrafish so powerful it can be used to redirect the fate of cells in the developing embryo to become beating heart cells, suggesting that a similar gene in humans could be used to generate heart cells in culture for transplant in ailing people.

Thanks to ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging techniques, MRI now can be used to provide more information when fetal abnormalities are suspected during a prenatal ultrasound exam...

Scientists at UC San Francisco and Harvard University tracking people after lung cancer surgery have discovered that those who bear a common cancer-causing mutation tend to have particularly aggressive tumors early on and are four times more likely to die of the disease.

A simple, outpatient procedure could potentially save millions of men and their partners from becoming infected with HIV, but health professionals have been reluctant to provide the needed information and resources, say the authors of a Lancet editorial review.

In one of the largest studies to date, a team of AIDS researchers concludes that name-based reporting programs for HIV infection are not producing specific public health benefits in the effort to control the AIDS epidemic.